Any plans for steam deck support?

[TGIF]

Title sums it up pretty much

[Akira]

It works just fine on mine. tho i use a wireless mouse and keyboard for the game.

[DaBa]

1. There is no such thing as "Steam Deck support", really. Steam Deck is just another computer running a linux based OS. Majority of the games work natively on it (such as this one) thanks to how advanced Proton as a whole is now. It's not a console. And when they do not it's rarely due to Steam Deck itself, it's almost always either because the game doesn't work through Proton, the hardware is not powerful enough and there is nothing to be done about this, or the game has some BS third party DRM or other nonsense like additional launchers that refuse to run through Proton as well. Neither of these cases are due to not having "Steam Deck support", and using this terms as a catch-all kinda thing is pointless too due to how many things it could mean.

2. Games like this don't work well on a Steam Deck due to controls. DSP needs Mouse and Keyboard to be controlled properly, controllers have inherit physical limitations that work against them for games that heavily rely on fast and precise mouse movements and lots of hotkeys. No amount "controller support" is ever going to change that.

Just look at any RTS that was made to work on a console, they all suck controls wise. Or even a better, more recent example: Factorio on the Switch. It received extensive controller improvements on that console and is probably the best they could've done in that regard. It only made it go from god awful to bad in terms of controls.

3. Steam Deck is nowhere nearly powerful enough to support lategame shenanigans. DSP brings even the most powerful desktops to their knees for any large scale projects, especially Dyson Spheres. I doubt the Steam Deck has any chance of doing anything other than the bare minimum required to "beat" the current game.

So, unless you're going to do as Akira above did, meaning plug in a mouse and a keyboard and play that way, and not go into any late game megabase-style builds, DSP on a Steam Deck is just not going to be a good experience. Ever.

[DaBa]

I guess the main takeaway from this is: Don't pay attention to the "Supported on Steam deck" badge of approval, it means nothing. I mean it, I've played games that are "officially" supported on Steam deck and are "verified", and they work like ♥♥♥♥ and are basically unplayable due to low framerate, instability or erratic performance. Most recent example I can remember is Core Keeper.

I have also played games that are unverified, that the devs have done nothing to make them work better on a Steam Deck, or even straight up marked as "unsupported". And a lot of them worked significantly better than the ones that are officially supported and verified, in fact most of them I had close to zero issues with or had to take minor steps to make run properly, like changing the proton version, applying an external patch or running straight from the OS level.

Moral of the story: Steam Deck verification and support is a guideline at best, and useless at worst. Don't ask if there are "Any plans for steam deck support", just run the game on the Deck and see for yourself, majority of the time it will work just fine if the hardware can handle it.

[TGIF]

Steamdeck support means the developers mapped buttons to steamdeck locations.

Have played games without this title and its sometimes hit or miss.

It's just convenience for me as the user since I don't have to go through key mapping and helps the game grow as benefit for the developers: in steam store you can filter on titles that have the support.